Feds order California marijuana dispensaries to close

[zinfamous]

I always heard it was a gateway drug. All the guys in high school I knew that smoked weed ended up doing other drugs like crack.

probably either that or huffing gasoline where you live. amirite?

 

[pcgeek11]

Jesus Tapdancing Christ... this is so stupid it hurts. With all of the other shit that's wrong with this country, we're worrying about legal pot shops?

IAW federal law there is no such thing as a Legal Pot Shop.

 

[warr666]

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[guyver01]

Jesus Tapdancing Christ... this is so stupid it hurts. With all of the other shit that's wrong with this country, we're worrying about legal pot shops?

To the government, it's the same thing as cracking down on Crack dens, or Meth Cookers...

Pot is Illegal at the federal level.

 

[bfdd]

Oh no, more Americans will have to get jobs now.

I knew there was a catch to this whole job policy thing.

closing these dispensaries is killing jobs. Decent paying jobs. A small farmer can make 4k+ a month, you can get around 10 to 20 an hour working for a dispensary. It has created a new sector for chefs to find a product to market. This is retarded and anti-productive.

 

[hans030390]

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[Dr. Zaus]

Pretty sure the kid that stole your iPad was a pothead too!

 

[Wyndru]

LOL @ the system being abused. Of course the system is abused, every system is abused. Welfare? Check. Contraband cigarettes? Check. Underage drinking? Check.

I agree with you, and any system that is being abused should be put in check, but this system completely went off the rails. It went from dispensed joints in a prescription labeled container to being able to buy pot in packages that look like candy bars. From 1 dispensary in a town to 4 on a block.

Basically it got taken over by the people that it was not meant for. As a result, they are (rightfully so) taking it away from the people abusing it and setting it back to just the non for profit legitimate medicinal locations. IMO I'm glad they are doing this, because all these dispensaries were hurting the real movement to legalized mj. You walk into these places and it looks like a candy store for hippies.

 

[dud]

closing these dispensaries is killing jobs. Decent paying jobs. A small farmer can make 4k+ a month, you can get around 10 to 20 an hour working for a dispensary. It has created a new sector for chefs to find a product to market. This is retarded and anti-productive.

Another reason to close these illegal drug dealers down ...


if you took a poll how many Americans would hope for the country of California to break away from the US ... slip into the Pacific ... and never be seen again?

 

[BudAshes]

Another reason to close these illegal drug dealers down ...


if you took a poll how many Americans would hope for the country of California to break away from the US ... slip into the Pacific ... and never be seen again?

The only reason california sucks is because all the shitty people from the rest of the states come here and ruin it.

 

[Eli]

I agree with you, and any system that is being abused should be put in check, but this system completely went off the rails. It went from dispensed joints in a prescription labeled container to being able to buy pot in packages that look like candy bars. From 1 dispensary in a town to 4 on a block.

Basically it got taken over by the people that it was not meant for. As a result, they are (rightfully so) taking it away from the people abusing it and setting it back to just the non for profit legitimate medicinal locations. IMO I'm glad they are doing this, because all these dispensaries were hurting the real movement to legalized mj. You walk into these places and it looks like a candy store for hippies.

I understand what you're saying..

But I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Of course these shops are like a "candy store for hippies". Just like a liquor store is a candy store for alcoholics.

That's the way the shops would/will be when it's legalized, so meh. If they're paying their taxes and otherwise running a legitimate business, who cares?

 

[AlienCraft]

Obama had to do it to keep the Mexican criminal drug cartels in business.

Stage one of Hegel's dialectic.
Going to repeal the posse commitatus law as well, I'm sure.

 

[yh125d]

Back in high school I saw a guy get hooked on weed. He would shake sometimes and get violent if he went without for a few days. Last I heard he was selling ass on the corner for his weed fix.

Been reading Go Ask Alice much?

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Stage one of Hegel's dialectic.
Going to repeal the posse commitatus law as well, I'm sure.

Actually the assumptions of the poster are much more in the way of Marxist ideal being nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind;

From this basis the argument is against authority and power that perpetuates a system of repression. Not an abstract-negative-concrete attempt at finding and fixing rhetorical contradictions.

 

[xanis]

To the government, it's the same thing as cracking down on Crack dens, or Meth Cookers...

Pot is Illegal at the federal level.

I understand that pot is illegal at the federal level, but I thought that medical marijuana was legal in California thanks to that thing called "states' rights"? Am I missing something here, or is this a simple case of the government playing the "we don't like this and since our laws are more powerful than your laws, you have to listen" game?

 

[amddude]

Stupid. Liberty, how does it work?

 

[Newbian]

I understand that pot is illegal at the federal level, but I thought that medical marijuana was legal in California thanks to that thing called "states' rights"? Am I missing something here, or is this a simple case of the government playing the "we don't like this and since our laws are more powerful than your laws, you have to listen" game?

It seemed california politicians was doing their best to get rid of these types of shops on their own before this had happened.

Hell the governor signed a bill a little bit ago letting the cities do whatever they wanted about them to the point of raiding and shutting them down whenever they wanted.

 

[xSauronx]

Don't forget that we would no longer be spending the money that goes towards enforcing its illegality (ex: putting people in jail or prison).

That sort of talk is going to put people in the DEA, FBI, prison system, etc, out of jobs, which is obviously horrible for the economy. What silly talk.

You walk into these places and it looks like a candy store for hippies.

yeah, those damn, trouble-making hippies who just want a reefer candy bar and a couple extra bags of doritos so they can sit around watching "chappelles show" on dvd. those assholes. D:

 

[xanis]

I can't believe I'm going to say this but...

What Gayner said

Smart thing to do in difficult economic times - close down legitimate businesses in favour of illegal counterparts.

 

[qliveur]

^Gayner's actually been correct about a lot of stuff regarding the US and its dipshit policies.

Back in high school I saw a guy get hooked on weed. He would shake sometimes and get violent if he went without for a few days. Last I heard he was selling ass on the corner for his weed fix.

Trollolololololololol

 

[yh125d]

$15 buck for sex? Sounds like a good deal. I've always had to give it away for free!

 

[qliveur]

Looks more like 15 bucks for buttsex.

 

[DrPizza]

See??! Proof that marijuana makes people stupid. Anyone with half a brain knows that if you're massively profitable, you need to make large donations to powerful congressmens' re-election campaigns, take congressmen on yacht trips, etc. Otherwise, you don't get to remain massively profitable.

Oh, and proof that smoking pot makes people less ambitious too! $200,000 in profits per months? You think they have a yacht yet? Nope, of course not. You don't need a yacht to order out for a pizza after you get the munchies.


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[AreaCode707]

Smart thing to do in difficult economic times - close down legitimate businesses in favour of illegal counterparts.

Yes and no.

I live in Mendocino County, where weed is the primary cash crop of an otherwise mostly poor area.

The local law enforcement tries their best to focus on the problem growers, primarily the big illegal grows in public land sponsored by the Mexican gangs, that dump chemicals, siphon water illegally and otherwise do a lot of ecological damage and bring a lot of crime into the county.

Most of the legal medical growers though are also illegal; the limit is 25 plants in this area but nobody sticks to it. The sheriff has tried lots of programs to identify legal growers and their approved crops (the zip tie program is the one currently in effect) but the medical growers do a lot to circumvent and interfere with law enforcement because they fear trouble for exceeding the limit.

Those folks are not seriously disruptive, other than robbers coming into their neighborhoods and breaking into backyards to steal plants, but they are obstacles to law enforcement going after bigger criminals. They run a radio station advising on sheriff's movements, and they take up a lot of time when law enforcement is working with them and trying to sort out what's legal and what's not. Trying to determine whether crops in transit are legal or illegal is almost impossible.

The medical growers and users are a huge contingent up here and they've voted down law enforcement budgets almost to nothing because they want to prevent interference in their own businesses.

There's a major difference between medical and gang growers but the two are related in some ways. Most "legal" growers are not as legal or law-abiding as it sounds, and that is throws a huge monkey-wrench in the works.

I'm pro-legalization because I think decreased prices and increased availability will cut the profit too much for gang growers to keep taking risks. Regulation like tobacco and alcohol would help immensely.

 

[SSSnail]

Don't mean to turn this into a political thread, but meanwhile, they signed into law that we have to support illegals through schools (Dream Act). FUCK that shit.